Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator (2016)

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4/6/2016

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6/6/2013

This installment of Photoshop for Designers shows how to combine Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, taking advantage of the strongest features in each program. Learn how to work with symbols, custom brushes, Live Paint, creative filters, clipping masks, and more, while following along with veteran graphic designer and teacher Nigel French. Nigel explains the relationship between Photoshop and Illustrator and walks through hands-on projects such as a montage, a movie poster, and a print ad, while demonstrating how to work back and forth between the two applications.

Topics include:

Combining Photoshop with the Illustrator Image Trace command

Generating "painted" type with Illustrator brush strokes

Creating an abstract background

Adapting a Photoshop custom shape into a symbol

Experimenting with transformations

Creating frames, backgrounds, and type

Duplicating, scaling, and arranging elements

Modifying Illustrator symbols in Photoshop

Adding and styling type with Offset Path

Skill Level Intermediate

4h 1m

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- [Voiceover] Hi, I'm Nigel French,welcome to Photoshop for Designers:Working with Illustrator.In this course we're going to be exploringsome of the ways you can combine Photoshop with Illustrator.Because I believe the best way to learn somethingis by diving in and doing it,we'll be completing a series of mini-projectsthat demonstrate how, in a real world way,these two powerhouse programs can be used together.Photoshop and Illustrator are fundamentally different,but share many of the same features and conventions.

I'll be concentrating on their areas of difference,in order to demonstrate how, when using both together,we can play to their strengths.We'll look at extending our range of creativepossibilities in Photoshop by leveragingthe creative potential of Illustratorin the form of Life Paint Groups,Symbol Sets, extra Typographic Options,Blends and Transformations.These are tools we don't have in Photoshop,but because we can seamlessly move artworkback and forth between the two programs,we can tap into a whole new range of options.

So, without further ado,let's get started withPhotoshop for Designers:Working with Illustrator.

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Q: This course was updated on 04/06/2016. What changed?

Q: We added 13 new tutorials in chapter 11-14 to cover some new techniques, such as animating Illustrator patterns, creating shape-based compositions, and creating retro-looking print designs.